Nettlewild Fairy

I’m Nettle, he/they, nonbinary and queer as heck. I am an adult and I blog about writing, games (video and tabletop) cartoons, science, art, and anything else that catches my fancy. My aesthetic ideal is to look at all times like a gay forest wizard

[maxvelocity]

kingdom of predators 🌱🐜

[zhinico]

your wish is my command (fluorescent pink + blue)

[portraitoftheoddity]

The problem with having OCs is that sometimes you wanna read about your little guy being in situations but unfortunately he is YOUR little guy and no one is gonna put him in that situation but you. Tragic.

[straycatj]

オレのめしのために　もっとはたらけなのです

Work more, landlady, for my kibbles

[preserving-tiktok]

[hugintheraven]

I say this every time, but people Do Not Realize just how short the timeline has been on gay people in kids’ media. And it’s an ongoing fight, but this was 10 - 15 years ago.

[casuallyodd]

I'm not in the Steven Universe fandom. I don't really even know the show. But the story she's telling here is important to remember. What feels like small snippets of representation took a lot of fighting to get and it wasn't as long ago as you think.

[why-i-love-comics]

Batwoman #4 (2026) DC Pride variant by Betsy Cola

[nettlewildfairy]

Pepper mill color study

[artfight]

If you missed the stream, 2026's theme reveal animation is on YouTube! Thank you to everyone who joined the stream - we hit over 55 THOUSAND viewers!!!

[denmark-street]

[irishironclad]

3rd person is the most common perspective style…

[ach-sss-no]

I want to trap the can't-read-3rd-person poster in the same room as one of those people who hates 1st person so much they want to wipe it from the universe (usually through not being widely read and only encountering 1st person ever in a particularly annoying type of YA fiction). then we'd see who wins, and if they manage to overcome their differences and fall in love. i think i could make a whole anime out of that

[misplacedlizard]

The encounter between them should be narrated in second-person. To annoy both of them.

[estel-and-agape]

You think that’s a wonderful idea.

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay, I'll reblog that!

[mortimermcmirestinks]

you mean yeah okay you'll reblog that

[beardedmrbean]

[aeonvy]

spinosaurus mirabilis my sweet beloved <333

[blessedchimken]

Redraw of that one th e thing poster

[tatlitte-lian]

LOVE TRIO LOVE TRIO

[lilyblisslys]

if I ever tell you “lmk what you think if you read/play/watch it!” I am firmly inviting you to send me a play by play minute by minute cataloguing of your thoughts about The Thing

[what-even-is-thiss]

I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

[fassina]

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

[tjalexandernyc]

this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.

[ariaste]

Ah yes the Slough of Desponds. Professional author with 13 books, and this is normal for me as well. (Checking for tension issues usually helps!)

[sainamoonshine]

Lmao I literally wrote a whole blog post abt it once.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/writing-advice-1-82451675

Writing Advice #1: The 90% project completion Dark Night of the Soul | Marie Blanchet

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[neilanuruodo]

This essay from one of my creative writing profs really helped me with this kind of thing. It's not too long, please give it a read!

https://www.ut-ie.com/b/b_flowers.html

[viralfrog]

[glenthemes]

A positive unanticipated side-effect of adding alt text (image descriptions) more often is that it makes you a better writer 👀

This post by @⁠anistarrose includes some helpful sites/resources on how to write image descriptions.

This post by @⁠dremenec.com (Bluesky) illustrates the benefits of adding alt text: